Hindemith - A Pilgrim's Progress ( The South Bank Show - Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress )

Hindemith - A Pilgrim's Progress (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The South Bank Show - Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
40 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1990 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Tony Palmer

Written By:
Tony Palmer

Actors:
Melvyn Bragg ..... Himself - Presenter
John Gielgud ..... Narrator
Ronald Pickup ..... Narrator

Synopsis:

Three-part documentary on the German composer Paul Hindemith. Part one features a lecture, narrated by Ronald Pickup, on the composer's life and works and discusses how and why he wrote the famous opera 'Mathis der Maler' which was based on a painting by Matthias Grünewald. Part two looks at the painting in more detail, with the music from the opera accompanying the scenes. Part three features Hindemith's own words alongside archive footage of the Third Reich and more music from 'Mathis der Maler'.

Tony Palmer's study of the German composer Paul Hindemith is one of the most challenging and rewarding in the acclaimed film director's entire oeuvre. The film is in three parts. Part One consists of a brief historical lecture on the life of Paul Hindemith, narrated by the actor Ronald Pickup. Hindemith's associations with Jewish musicians brought him into disfavour with the Nazi regime. In response, he penned an opera, Mathis der Maler, inspired by a massive altarpiece created for a convent in Isenheim by the painter Matthias Grünewald early in the 16th century. Part Two, is a series of scenes taken from the Isenheim Altarpiece itself, accompanied by the Mathis der Maler orchestral suite, and linked by passages from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress read by Sir John Gielgud. In Part Three painted images merge with living pictures, Hindemith's own words flow in and out of narrative from The Pilgim's Progress, previously unseen archive from the Third Reich appears fleetingly, and music from Mathis der Maler embraces all in a fierce and loving embrace.

Biography about Paul Hindemith, his opera Mathis der Maler and his persecution under the Nazis.

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